Danniella Westbrook reveals surgery hell saying ‘it’s been a living nightmare – my body is ruined’
DANNIELLA Westbrook regrets travelling to Turkey to have facial reconstruction surgery, claiming that it has “ruined” her body.
The former EastEnders star headed to the country to fix a past botched surgery, but was left disappointed with the results.
The actress, 49, had a surgical thread lift and a fat transfer – but said that she wanted her nose to be fixed but they didn’t do it.
After having the corrective surgery, she now plans on having more but in the UK.
She said that they put 200 threads in her nose in a bid to straighten it, but said that the procedure failed.
Danniella said that she’s now going to return to Liverpool to get her nose fixed, explaining that surgeons need to rebuild the bridge in her mouth and build up the front of her nose.
Speaking to OK! Magazine, the actress said: “I thought I was going to die during the surgery, I really did. On the way there, I was told horror stories about people dying on the table.”
They also took some fat out of her back, sides and stomach and have pumped it into her face to make it more symmetrical.
She explained that she thinks they took “too much” fatty tissue from her stomach and she’s now “lost her six-pack”.
Danniella said that her stomach is “saggy” and it looks like she’s lost a substantial amount of weight, leaving her with excess skin.
“I also have big lumps of fluid all over my belly. They’re like big tennis balls. It’s ruined my body,” she fumed.
The star is devastated as she planned on being in “the best shape of her life” for her 50th birthday.
As well as having swelling on her stomach, she said that she had “fluid under her eyes”.
“I could barely open them. I have never been in pain like it. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I was hysterically crying every single day.
“It was terrifying because I don’t speak Turkish, so nobody could understand me.”
Her journey home sounded just as bad, she claimed that she lost sight in one of her eyes and felt immense pressure in her head during the flight.
A few days after she arrived in Portugal she had to be taken to hospital after her stitches popped open when she was washing her hair – leaving her with an “inch long hole” in the side of her head.
She said that the doctors in Portugal were horrified by the surgery.
The TV star called the experience “a living nightmare” and said that she “regrets it” and wants to return to England to spend time with loved ones.